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Facilitator's guide for course "Combating child labour in Myanmar: A course for Civil Society Organizations" (English).  This document presents a guide to the ILO course for Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Combatting Child Labour. It provides practical guidance, support and materials to help facilitators successfully implement the course. The document covers course planning, implementation and follow-up, in each case providing helpful tips and advice. This is supported by a selection of training tools provided in the appendix and supporting materials, including draft agenda, icebreakers, energizers, PowerPoint slide deck, course exercises and handouts for participants. This document should be reviewed alongside the Understanding Child Labour resource, which provides a wealth of technical and support information on each of the topics discussed in the course, ranging from the strategic objectives of the ILO to a detailed treatment of the causes and consequences of child labour.

Agenda to be used by facilitator to structure instances of the course "Combating child labour in Myanmar: A course for Civil Society Organizations" (English).

Presentation materials (slide headings and bullet points, currently formatted as text on letter-sized PDF pages, but ready to be copied to a PowerPoint deck) to be used by facilitator in the course "Combating child labour in Myanmar: A course for Civil Society Organizations" (English).

Report of Child Labor Cases - We are Treasure + Action Fund: A video describing how to report a case of child labor.

Guide for Mining Free of Child Labor: This guide contains information related to the rights of children, adolescents and their families; the phenomenon of child labor in Colombia and, particularly, in mining. It also presents the child labor reporting route, a tool used to identify the risks of child labor in a small mine and the social programs offered by public and private institutions, aimed at mitigating the effects of the problem in the territories.

The Interesting World of Responsible Mining: This booklet will be of great help to understand what responsible mining is and everything it offers us. It also invites you in an original and creative way to value mining as a very important activity for the progress of our society.

Lizeth is part of one of the beneficiary households that the Somos Tesoro project has trained in family economics and savings models. The Pact team took on the task of advising families in the community on financial management, creating a family budget and eliminating superfluous expenses, to improve their economic solvency.

Perceptions and Imaginaries about Child Labor in Colombian Gold and Coal Mining: This study tries to identify these relationships and propose alternatives to overcome the factors that promote and justify it. The study combines quantitative and qualitative social research techniques to obtain a different perception, with an internalized vision of the causes of child labor, both at a general level and at a particular level in the Colombian ASM of coal and gold. In addition, it offers an analysis without barriers, which highlights the point of view of miners and shows the importance of taking their opinions into account, with a view to making them the agents of change on child labor.

The Jamaica National Youth Activity Survey (JYAS) 2016 is the product of a partnership between the Statistical Institute of Jamaica and the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is the first stand-alone survey of children’s activities conducted nationally. The main objective of the survey is to collect comprehensive information on children’s engagement in economic activities. The JYAS 2016 report provides quantitative, reliable and updated statistics on working children, child labour, and hazardous work performed by children in Jamaica. Detailed in this report is statistical information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of working children aged 5 to 17 years as well as related information on the households to which they belong. The report includes an analysis of fundamental child labour-related issues, such as children’s involvement in economic activity, types and characteristics of child labour and children’s working environment. It also contains findings about children’s non-economic activities, principally school attendance and engagement in household chores.

The Child Labour Survey 2015 carried out in Ethiopia collected information on the demographic characteristics of the population, including their education, health, employment, migration, and housing characteristics. The survey covered both the rural and urban areas of the country. It was conducted in 721 enumeration selected areas consisting of 21, 526 private households from 25 May to 23 July 2015. Basic information on all persons living in private households was solicited. The population targeted by the survey was the group of children aged 5 to 17 years.